Wolf’s opinion after Monday night’s Pistons game was that the Suns earned a moral victory.
I called BS and then he talked forever.
I’ll try to type fast and get my point out this time. I’m afraid if I don’t, he might have the ability to interrupt even my blogs.
I was amazed to hear a man who stuck up for Bill Belichick during the football season every time the Patriots ran up the score explain how losing to the Pistons was a moral victory. I have 71,437,668 reasons why there are no moral victories. It just so happens that the Suns payroll is $71,437,668.
Shaquille makes $21 million. Amare makes $13. Nash makes $11. Boris makes $9 - please explain how he makes two million less then a two-time MVP. Leandro Barbosa is in the $5’s and Raja is in the $4’s. These guys aren’t paid for moral victories.
I coach Vienna’s soccer team. When my daughter actually runs to the ball and does something with it, that’s a moral victory. When a high school kid scores two points in the first half and gets his shot blocked 3 times, but roars back in the second half and takes it strong to the hole, that’s a moral victory.
When 13 men get paid $71 1/2 million dollars to win basketball games and they lose, there is no moral victory.
I’ve never seen a paper that prints up NBA moral victories. The whole premise of the conversation was in regard to a simple question. How should the Suns feel about losing a game that was so poorly officiated at the end of the game that it took the chance for the Suns to win away from them?
The officiating in that game was not good and it wasn’t bad.
IT WAS A NORMAL NIGHT IN THE NBA.
It was a terribly officiated basketball game, but it wasn’t a terribly officiated NBA game.
This league doesn’t care about the game. This commissioner doesn’t care about the quality of officials. If he did, where’s the public reprimand for the end of the Suns/Pistons game? I haven’t heard the league office admit that Monte Ellis was the victim of a tackle last night as opposed to the “committer” of a foul on Derek Fisher in the second game of the Lakers/Warriors home-and-home.
We learned a lot during the Tim Donaghy scandal. Why did gamblers want to know the officials schedule ahead of time? Gamblers know the game better than anybody. If gamblers think a combination of referee A and player B could result in more fouls called, it would affect the way they bet on the game. How could that be Mr. Commissioner?
If your officials evaluate each game independently, why would gamblers see an advantage? If referees showed a bias in the past, wouldn’t they have been reprimanded and either changed or been dismissed? They aren’t selling basketball.
The NBA is a fraud.
If you want to see the Suns in finals, moral victories aren’t going to cut it. They have to accept this league and this commissioner for what it is and win in spite of it.
Do you really think the league is going to allow a New Orleans/Orlando final? Can’t you feel a Celtics/Lakers series? We all hope I’m wrong and we all know I’m not.
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